Hello! First, thanks to Coalgirls for this release. Unfortunately it looks like this series wasn’t produced to be distributed in HD so the difference between DVD and BluRay isn’t extraordinary, but I still appreciate this for rewatching in better conditions (plus the specials I haven’t watched yet).

Second, here is a batch script I created for conversion of the sound from FLAC to AAC and remuxing to MKV: http://club.japanim.free.fr/MaiHiME_FLAC_to_AAC.zip
Use it if you don’t have a lot of disk space. It will reduce the total size of the episodes by half (!!!) by removing the Chinese audio and compressing the Jap and Eng audio to AAC. Most people (including me) won’t notice any difference with the FLAC audio, and the original video is kept intact.

You need to extract all the files in the same folder as the MKV files from Coalgirls, and then open the .bat file with a text editor and follow the instructions before executing the script by double-clicking on it.

Unfortunately I can’t really test this script because I don’t have the original Coalgirls episodes anymore and I don’t have any disk space left :-X When I did the conversion for myself I used something a bit less automated. At least I checked the loops on all files were working correctly. Please report any problem here or preferably on this forum thread: http://forums.bakabt.com/index.php?topic=23440.new

Was just wondering whether I could get the english subs(.ass / .srt files) from any kind soul here. Recently downloaded a non-CG version of mai hime but there were no english subs. Would be a hassle to redownload the entire series again

So I didn’t see any comments pointing this out, and it’s been released quite a long time now, but the end of episode 26 (non-director’s cut), when the opening theme is playing over the epilogue, the dialog is not subbed, only karaoke.

Not really an issue since DC has the subs, but thought I’d say something :X